The United softball team started hitting from its very first batter and didn't stop until its last hitter, pounding the ball all over the field against Macomb on Wednesday.

The Red Storm had 26 hits in their 27-4 win over the Bombers in Macomb.

"We've had a couple pretty good hitting games, that's one thing we've focused on this year is the bats," United coach Hannah Baker said. "We've got to score runs to win games and when you're scoring, that takes a lot of pressure off the pitcher and the defense."

The Red Storm started scoring right away, using a 12-hit first inning to score 15 runs.

"We can't take anything away from them, they earned everything they got," Macomb coach Mary Quigle said. "I told our pitchers to make them earn their runs and not walk them.

"Both did a good job not walking a lot of batters, but they (United) hit the cover off the ball."

Nine of United's 15 runs in the first came with two out.

"That's one thing we've been real good at, keeping each other up and keeping each other going," Baker said. "We've played four or five games where everybody has hit the ball well, they all have the capability.

"It's one of those things, once the first three or four get on, everybody wants to get on and it gets everybody swinging."

Abbey French led United with four hits, four RBI and four runs scored, but every starter for United had at least one hit and scored at least one run and several bench players also were able to get in on the hit parade.

"It was consistent throughout the night," Quigle said. "They found every hole and hit every ball hard, even their outs were hit hard."